These are the things that often work for curlies: Conditioner Only washes, plopping, not touching your hair after you wash it, curly girl method. You can google all of those there are a lot of tutorials out there.

All of the basic information is found here: LiveCurlyLiveFree (http://livecurlylivefree.com/curly%20hair%20basics.htm), just make sure you read all the pages there are 6 of them.